To be honest, I am kinda glad the season is over. The team just didn't have enough talent to compete with better teams. That was glaringly obvious tonight. CC had a plethora of smallish, athletic and quick players and our second team guys were revealed as too slow and unathletic to compete. Additionally, Braxton is just not quick enough to stay with a player like Thomas. He was really schooled tonight. Just more evidence of the things I have been saying about this team for most of the year. They just can't compete with a quick and athletic team.
Cannon will never be a player who can make a difference. He just doesn't have the quicks to do it. I suppose Rahe will keep him and he can fill in against lesser teams and give starters a few minutes rest. But against better competition he will remain on the bench.
Cody John played his heart out and it is sad to see him relegated to the end of the bench. But to be fair, he earned it. He is another one who just doesn't have the quicks and athleticism to compete against better players. He will probably stay with the team and become a minimal spot player. I think Rahe likes him and won't "counsel him out". Hope I am wrong about that.
Baker is only a notch better than Cannon and John. He will play in selected spots in the future when the other team doesn't play an athletic guy at the 3 and when he can create a mismatch for a few minutes at the 4. But, lets be honest about him; he is a major defensive liability at both of these positions, especially at the 4. So to get more than a few minutes he is going to have to have the right matchup or just be insanely hot in a game and earn a few more minutes because of that.
Dallas has never had "it". He will never have it. I think if Rahe is smart he "counsels him out" immediately.
We know already that all the other benchers and redshirts, with the exception of Chapman will never amount to anything. They should be moved on also...
And that is our bench... people that we hoped would develop, but they didn't because they don't have the natural ability to ever be able to make a difference for a Division 1 basketball program. As I always was fond of saying "you just can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit"! And I know that to be true because I tried hard and often and failed. Rahe cannot do it either and he needs to realize that he has missed the boat on these players and go try to find better ones.
I think our only salvation next year will come if the incoming guys are really something special and can be big-time players as freshman. I sure hope and pray that we have more talent next year than we know about right now. Otherwise, I think Chapman is gonna think that he made a big mistake coming to Weber. Harding, Richardson and Braxton will be better next year. We need at least 5 make-a-difference newcomers to put with them if we expect to have a great year.
And by the way, I personally don' think that a 20-14 record is an "impressive season" Tal! Especially when 3 of those victories came from high school level opposition. We were just average in one of the least impressive conferences in the nation. That's not impressive to me... Sorry, but I's calls it likes I sees it!
I am praying for some serious changes from Rahe and a real shake-up in the program.
